Ludwig Euler

Ludwig Karl Heinrich Justus Euler (born March 6, 1830 in Gießen ; † December 28, 1908 in Worms ) was a German bricklayer and stone mason and from 1866 to 1886 the city ​​architect for the city of Worms.

Life

Born in Gießen in 1830, Euler first learned the profession of bricklayer and stone mason before he expanded his specialist knowledge with a master. Euler attended the advanced training school of the Gießener Gewerbeverein, where he probably learned to read and create structural drawings himself.

From 1848 to 1851 Euler was employed in the engineering office Eickemeyer, where he supervised the construction of the Main-Weser Railway, among other things , and was also involved in its structural and engineering structures. From 1854 to 1886 he was employed as a supervisor and draftsman at the section office of the Main-Weser-Bahn, then he came to Worms and in 1856 was a temporary worker under the district master builder Rasor.

Working as a city architect

After there was no city master builder in Worms until the 1840s (up until then the district building authority was asked for administrative assistance), the position was advertised several times. Euler was awarded seventh place after his six predecessors only held their positions for a short time and then resigned. Euler was the first Worms city architect to exercise his office for more than two decades and also the first to fulfill a contract with fixed provisions that were drawn up by the local council.

Carmelite Elementary School, city architect Euler, 1876

Euler completed the new building of the warehouse including its road connection in 1874. In the same year, the Eichlokal on the southwest corner of Ludwigstrasse (today's Hagenstrasse) was closed by him. Eulers also built the military hospital and the Rheingewannfriedhof cemetery to the north and east of Mainzer Strasse.

Other buildings by Euler are today's Karmeliter-Grundschule , which he built from 1871 to 1876 and the three-storey, neo-classical representative building in Goethestrasse, which was originally designed for the old-language grammar school and the upper secondary school, and which is now home to the Karmeliter-Realschule-Plus. Both school buildings have been preserved and are under monument protection.

Karmeliter-Realschule Plus, city architect Euler, 1879

When the incumbent mayor Heimburg died and Wilhelm Küchler took over his office, Euler initially remained the city architect. He was commissioned to undertake the long-awaited renovation of the Worms town house in Hagenstrasse. The plans for this conversion presented by Küchler to the council were drawn up by Euler. The later construction supervision and completion of the town house also falls under his responsibility.

However, there were still critical voices from the local council, since Euler, despite a salary increase, had apparently not succeeded in separating professional assignments from private ones and giving priority to the former. Euler was not contractually prohibited from carrying out private planning, but parts of the council members still did not like this.

As a result, Küchler arranged for the District Councilor Heinrich von Gagern to take Euler's office management examination. In his questionnaire in April 1885, Euler stated that he is responsible for the entire city area and that his building control tasks had reached his limits. When he was temporarily given the task of developing the first plans for a new hospital by the city authorities, his limits were exceeded.

The files on Euler, which had grown in the meantime, were submitted to the Darmstadt master builder, Wiessel, who was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior, for professional assessment after the questioning by the Gagern district council. His statement was made in September 1885, in which the district builder stated that Euler was overwhelmed with the tasks set for him, both in terms of quality and quantity. He accused the city leaders of not having recognized this fact for a long time and of having "just let things drift". He demanded that a city planner in a city of this size must have at least an academic education and that several employees must be provided to him, including his own office. As a result, the city council refrained from dismissing Eulers, which had already been considered, and instead adopted him into low-paid retirement.

Euler's successor was the architect and university professor Karl Hofmann on April 1, 1886 .

Others

Euler was married to Johannette (Johanna) Lony. The address book from this time shows that he lived with her at Rotkreuzgasse 1 until the end of his life.

literature

• Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . City archive , Worms 1993.
• Gerold Bönnen: History of the city of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . Stadtarchiv , Worms 1993, p. 147, 150 .
2. ^ City architect Ludwig Euler - German digital library. In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. Retrieved February 16, 2016 . 
3. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} , Pp. 8, 11 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
4. ^ ^{A b} Fritz Reuter: History of the City of Worms . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen. 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 505 .
5. ^ Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . Stadtarchiv , Worms 1993, p. 149 .
6. ^ Fritz Reuter: History of the City of Worms . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen. 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 506 .
7. ^ ^{A b} Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . Stadtarchiv , Worms 1993, p. 157 f .